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The Phenomenon of the Brain
Your book is called phantoms in the brain. Andu you've done an enormous amount of work on the phenono, the phenomenon of phantom limbs. Can you explain why you think that is interesting with o studying the brain? Well, very briefly. I mean, here is a striking clinical observation. An arm is amputated, and the patient vividly feels the presence of the missing arm. He calles this a phantom arm. And questions, does this happen? Roneld fears the fingers and can feel pain in the arm that doesn't exist. Of course, he's aware of the fact that he doesn't have an arm, but it's a very vivid sensory illusion the